Venezuela obtains a substantial harvest of medals in the Alba Sports Games – DiarioVea

SEE / Juan Cermeño

Venezuelan athletes achieved an abundant harvest of medals this Saturday, April 22, in the second day of the fifth edition of the Alba Sports Games, which has venues in Caracas, La Guaira and Miranda, with intense activity at the Parque Naciones facilities. United States (PNU) where freestyle BMX cycling competitions were held (freestyle), judo and swimming.

At the PNU Extreme Sports Park, in the El Paraíso parish, attention was focused on the greatest Venezuelan exponent and one of the greatest in the world of BMX freestyle, Daniel Dhers, runner-up at the Tokyo Olympics. 2020, although this time he did not get on the bicycle, but took the microphone and was in charge of animating and commenting on the performances of the participants for the attendees.

In the competition, which was carried out in two rounds, of which the best of each of the participants was taken into account, Eddy Alviárez, an athlete from Catia, won first place with 87.25 points, followed by Emiler Parra with 80.63 and with the bronze medal was Anthony Castro, 71.56.

“For me it is a great honor to have won the medal because I have been in the sport for more than 20 years and since 2019, when it was recognized and became an Olympic medalist, we have remained as models for other generations to continue,” said Alviárez, who accompanied Dhers to the Tokyo Olympics as a relay runner.

Alviárez also pointed out, “next month I will compete in the Pan-American Games, in Asunción, Paraguay, as part of that work focused on the competition in the French capital,” he stated in reference to his aspiration to qualify for the Paris Olympic Games. -2024.

For his part, Parra, who has already practiced this specialty for ten years, confessed: “I hope to be a follower of Daniel Dhers who can reach the Olympics, for this I want to have more competitions like this to strengthen my training.”

Castro, 18 years old and one of the youngest among the 12 registered in the event (all Venezuelans), bronze winner, said that “This medal represents more motivation and opportunities for me. It encourages me to move on to other competitions and push myself for what I want.”

At the end of the day, Dhers expressed his pride and joy at seeing “all these guys competing”, considering that they constitute the future of the specialty, the future representatives of Venezuela in international competitions.

Venezuela won a pair of gold medals in judo

At the National Judo Center, also within the United Nations Park complex, the first day of the tournament of this specialty took place, in which Venezuela won two gold and five silver medals in a day dominated by Cuba whose athletes rose in five times to the top of the podium, to which they added two runners-up, while Bolivia and Nicaragua loaded with a bronze.

Cuba dominated the division of up to 60 kilos with Yonathan Charon, who defeated the Venezuelan Janaiker Manzo in the clash for the gold medal and the bronze medal went to the Nicaraguan Jeyson Alanis. Maiker Salazar (less than 66 kilos) contributed another to the Cuban harvest, beating local Jesús Torres in the final; while Héctor San Román (-73 kg), in the clash for gold, beat Creole Leonardo Perdomo.

The fourth gold medal for Cuba came in the women’s tournament through Elidiany Martínez (-52 kg), with a victory against the Venezuelan Leomaris Ruiz; while the fifth was the work of Yusmaris Reyes (-63 kg), beating the local Ronelys Centeno.

The conquests of Venezuelan judo were the work of Natalia Odremán (-48 kg) who dominated the Cuban Cheila Areviche in the decisive fight; while Audreys Pacheco (-57 kg) beat Lian Benavides (Cuba), with bronze for the Bolivian Linett Toledo.

“I am very happy for this gold medal and at the same time grateful for having competed in these games. I achieved the objective set because I came with the intention of winning in my division”, expressed Natalia Odremán.

Kenpo swept 15 gold

This Saturday there was also action that martial art called kenpo, in the José Joaquín “Papá” Carrillo gym, in Sebucán, where the two Venezuelan teams swept the gold medals, according to a note published on the website of the sports event. juegosalbavenezuela2023.orgaccording to which the Venezuelans achieved 15 gold medals (12 for the A team and 3 for the B team), standing out Gabriela Fernández who was the first to climb to the top of the podium, while Nicaragua obtained two silver and nine bronze medals.

Swimming with six golds and junior record

Twelve finals were held on the first day at the United Nations Park pool complex, where Venezuelan swimming won six, also adding eleven silver and ten bronze medals to the national harvest.

Dennis Pérez, a 15-year-old swimmer from Caracas who came second in the 100-meter freestyle test and set the youth national record with 51 seconds and 57 hundredths, leaving behind the mark set by Francisco, stood out in the day’s programming. Shark” Sánchez of 51.97. The test was won by his brother Emil Pérez with 50s. 68cs, while Jorge Otaiza, also from Venezuela, was in the third box.

Likewise, María Victoria Yegres had an outstanding performance, who won the 800-meter freestyle with 8 minutes, 52 seconds and 72 hundredths, Alexandra Álvarez won the 100-meter breaststroke and Jesús López the 50m backstroke.

Other Venezuelans on the podium

We also have that in fencing, individual men’s saber, the Venezuelan Eliécer Romero beat the Cuban Hansel Rodríguez in the final 15 touches to 9 to win the gold medal.

While in chess, in the Blitz modality, the Venezuelan Anny Otazo obtained a gold medal, followed by her compatriots Vicmary Pérez and Jacksilany Guadalajara. The absolute category tournament was won by the Cuban International Master Lisandra Ordaz, escorted by the Creoles Samid Escalona and Ronald Brizuela.

Venezuela also won gold in the 200 and 1,000 meter skating events.